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I know he’s a long shot, but he was in the house today.

 

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I feel better about bigs like Foster coming to Iowa than I do guards.
 
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Post showed up 3 times for me so I edited then the one I left disappeared. Fuck.

Anyways, no TIH, we should turn away a top 25 player in the country.
 

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Let’s hope he went home with one of these:
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He is a Top 25 and probable 5*, but I don't know if he is strong enough for the Big Ten.

Fuck you.
 

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Do we even want him Doug? At state he spent most of his time on the perimeter.
 

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Do we even want him Doug? At state he spent most of his time on the perimeter.
When he was a high school sophomore no less.

Eric Bossi the national guy from Rivals went and saw him recently in a high school game. He said he does tend to float, doesn't dominate and isn't their #1 option.
He also said he had freakish athleticism, agility and skill and is worthy of his #26 ranking. And that he has all of the ability necessary to be an NBA player and reminds him of Willie Cauley-Stein.
 

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Do we even want him Doug? At state he spent most of his time on the perimeter.
When he was a high school sophomore no less.

Eric Bossi the national guy from Rivals went and saw him recently in a high school game. He said he does tend to float, doesn't dominate and isn't their #1 option.
He also said he had freakish athleticism, agility and skill and is worthy of his #26 ranking. And that he has all of the ability necessary to be an NBA player and reminds him of Willie Cauley-Stein.
Thank you for the insight. I don’t pay attention to high basketball at all and don’t follow recruiting other than on here. I obviously realize he is a Too 25 player. My sample size of seeing him is small, so I asked a simple question, but of course Doug had to be an angry psycho because he is an angry psycho.
 

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Do we even want him Doug? At state he spent most of his time on the perimeter.
When he was a high school sophomore no less.

Eric Bossi the national guy from Rivals went and saw him recently in a high school game. He said he does tend to float, doesn't dominate and isn't their #1 option.
He also said he had freakish athleticism, agility and skill and is worthy of his #26 ranking. And that he has all of the ability necessary to be an NBA player and reminds him of Willie Cauley-Stein.
oh
 

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The dudes making these rankings don’t care about his passivity at the Iowa High School state tournament. They see the impressive things he does during the AAU season against players that aren’t 3A white boys (no offense to myself).
 

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FWIW a coach at William Penn who knows the family well told me if Foster stays in state, he will be a Hawk.
 

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if

make the sweet sixteen and you might just land the kid....
 

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landing an in-state McDs AA would be your basic raef-curse exorcism
 

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FWIW a coach at William Penn who knows the family well told me if Foster stays in state, he will be a Hawk.
Bossi thinks the in-state schools will be tough to beat. Especially ifif Kansas/Kentucky/Duke don't make him a priority soon. He's taken 4 official visits already to Iowa, ISU, USC and UCLA.
 

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247 updated their rankings, Foster falls 3 spots to 34. Maybe this has been discussed before, I'm not checking, but all 5 of the predictions have him to Iowa.

https://247sports.com/Player/Xavier-Foster-46035932/
This would be big for a lot of reasons but obv the biggest reason would be finally warding off the blue bloods for an instate guy. I know Woodbury had a UNC offer.
Are the blue bloods even really after him? He has a Kansas offer but they cooled on him. UCLA is pretty much not a blue blood at this point.

None of the true others like Kentucky, Kansas, UNC, Michigan State, Michigan, Virginia and others seem to be after him.
 

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cause they know hes going to iowa!
 

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Saw him last week for first time since last season and he's improved. He was more assertive, stronger with the ball, and held his ground in the post. His ability to put it on the floor and touch from the outside is impressive.

He's far from a finished product but if he continues to work and improve he's going to be very special.

I think Iowa is positioned very nicely with him...as long as KU, Duke, or Kentucky don't increase their interest.
 

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247 updated their rankings, Foster falls 3 spots to 34. Maybe this has been discussed before, I'm not checking, but all 5 of the predictions have him to Iowa.

https://247sports.com/Player/Xavier-Foster-46035932/
This would be big for a lot of reasons but obv the biggest reason would be finally warding off the blue bloods for an instate guy. I know Woodbury had a UNC offer.
Are the blue bloods even really after him? He has a Kansas offer but they cooled on him. UCLA is pretty much not a blue blood at this point.

None of the true others like Kentucky, Kansas, UNC, Michigan State, Michigan, Virginia and others seem to be after him.
Yeah I’d consider UCLA a blue blood. He may not have offers from all of them but enough that it would be considered breaking that pattern IMO
 

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The great thing about him, not unlike Cook, is that he's just developmental enough that he should be sticking around a college campus for at least two or three years after he signs with Iowa.
 

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This would be big for a lot of reasons but obv the biggest reason would be finally warding off the blue bloods for an instate guy. I know Woodbury had a UNC offer.
Are the blue bloods even really after him? He has a Kansas offer but they cooled on him. UCLA is pretty much not a blue blood at this point.

None of the true others like Kentucky, Kansas, UNC, Michigan State, Michigan, Virginia and others seem to be after him.
Yeah I’d consider UCLA a blue blood. He may not have offers from all of them but enough that it would be considered breaking that pattern IMO
I dunno how to define "blue blood" but UCLA was still recruiting like one up until this most recent class when the Alford situation fell apart and USC broke through with the big local AAU teams. They were regularly signing top 10ish classes and pulling in 5 star kids
 

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UCLA is absolutely a blue blood, and to argue otherwise is foolish.

They are down right now, but like Alabama football in the nineties, are still indisputable royalty.
 
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UCLA is absolutely a blue blood, and to argue otherwise is foolish.

They are down right now, but like Alabama football in the nineties, are still indisputable royalty.
If you’re talking about name recognition, they still have some clout. That’s about it, and even that is fading. Btw, Alabama won a championship in 92’.
 

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UCLA made three straight final fours with Howland, it hasn't been that long since they were good.
 

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UCLA is absolutely a blue blood, and to argue otherwise is foolish.

They are down right now, but like Alabama football in the nineties, are still indisputable royalty.
If you’re talking about name recognition, they still have some clout. That’s about it, and even that is fading. Btw, Alabama won a championship in 92’.
And UCLA went to 3 straight Final Fours including one championship game from 2006-2008. They’re the original blue blood.
 

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UCLA is not a blue blood with the state of the Pac-12 going forward.
 

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UCLA, like Indiana, is a blue blood. Those kind of schools can go 5-6 years in a down cycle and still have the mythos, the aura. Sucks, but that's how it works.

History and name recognition matter.
 

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UCLA, like Indiana, is a blue blood. Those kind of schools can go 5-6 years in a down cycle and still have the mythos, the aura. Sucks, but that's how it works.

History and name recognition matter.
Is Nebrantska a blue blood?
 
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